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DEFECTS IN THE CRIMINAL ADMINISTRATION AND PENAL LEGISLATION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND WITH REMEDIAL SUGGESTIONS

Written by William Tallack
Published by F.B. Kitto in 1872

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DEFECTS IN THE CRIMINAL ADMINISTRATION AND PENAL LEGISLATION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND WITH REMEDIAL SUGGESTIONS
Written by William Tallack.
Stock no. 985978
1872. Hardback. Slightly better than good condition.

First edition. Pages: vii, 144, 28. Original red cloth with gilt lettering. No author named but believed to be William Tallack. Corners worn. Boards darkened.

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Contents

  • Introductory Observations
  • PARLIAMENTARY OBSTACLES
  • Contradictory Committees
  • Neglected "Commissions"
  • Executive Blunders
  • THE HOME SECRETARY'S DISTRACTIONS
  • Anomalous conclusions
  • Dangerous centralisation
  • "Under Consideration"
  • Suggested Improvement
  • THE JUDGES AND THE MAGISTRACY
  • Excellent local magistrates
  • Clerical Justices
  • SENTENCES
  • Repeated Short Terms
  • Cumulative sentences
  • Intermediate homes
  • First cautions
  • Magistrates Bail
  • City "Custom of Apprentices"
  • Needless imprisonments
  • Clerk's Fees
  • Reform of sentences
  • Excessive sentences
  • Shorter terms of penal servitude
  • PRISON DIRECTORS, INSPECTORS AND OTHER OFFICIALS
  • PRISON AND CRIMINAL REPORTS AND STATISTICS
  • THE POLICE
  • Arrests of innocent persons
  • Dealers in stolen goods
  • COUNTY AND BOROUGH GAOLS
  • Prison Act of 1865
  • The Treadwheel
  • Profitable Prison Labour
  • Alleged Competition
  • The honest matmakers
  • Skilled labour
  • Needless local gaols
  • County audits
  • GAOL REFORMS REQUIRED
  • THE CONVICT PRISONS
  • Mr C.F. Coffin's observations
  • Convict gangs
  • Convict labour and "profits"
  • Letters from an ex-convict
  • Imbecile convicts
  • REFORMS IN CONVICT PRISONS NEEDED
  • THE IRISH CONVICT PRISONS
  • Lusk prison farm
  • Spike Island Prison
  • Neglected instruction
  • Famine figures
  • Female convicts
  • Intemperance
  • Desiderata in Irish prisons
  • IRISH COUNTY AND BOROUGH GAOLS
  • Irish dietary
  • BRITISH COLONIAL PRISONS
  • Transportation
  • CRIMINAL LUNACY
  • Suggested reforms
  • ANOMALOUS INFLICTION OF THE CAPITAL PENALTY
  • MORE VOLUNTARY VISITATION OF PRISONS
  • RELIGIOUS MOTIVES AND AIMS
  • Dr. Colin Browning
  • Christian principles as a test and basis